LKF Developer: I'm Sympathetic to the Students

Allan Zeman, the developer of Hong Kong night life district Lan Kwai Fong, talks about why he is sympathetic to students despite the protests hurting his business.

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... tourist arrivals I'm down SMS seven percent from the year-ago Toobin joining me now is Dr Allen and the mandate he is both ... a businessman and longtime resident of Hong Kong gets twenty seven the authorities and in this and this silly back in May EU had said he's all these other Occupy Central protest when any very disruptive to Hong Kong ... that seems like you kind of change your tune a bit ... and what that not really I mean it has been very disruptive for Hong Kong it's actually really for Hong Kong ... very badly ... Hong Kong's image around the world and in some ... felt that ... it's important that to ... go down ... and really experience ... what was going on and talk about something just by nature ... is to go down and really tried to feel it ... understand that ... it was quite surprising to me that the word that many ... people now there were a lot of ... lookers but don the role of a very sympathetic people I'm sympathetic to the students understand I know what they want ... I've that when you younger very idealistic ... but um ... you know we have to understand both sides ... China side as well ... aam ... China need stability ... it's a country ... that has long been three billion people ... I think ... the ritual Occupy Central ... a on what to ... so called universal suffrage which will have just given other Fontana and the chief executive of Hong Kong ... really make up his own decisions with out China ... saying you must do this I think China ultimately does call was a hots but I think in this case they've ... given over to our government to Hong Kong government ... can save you try and settle it ... on your terms firms and if you need our help with the ... EU have a lot of ... vested interests have building restaurants nightclubs out so what what kind of cool are these protests taking on your businesses I think in general you know we even ... microphone the area which is the entertainment area in Hong Kong ... that has ... been very clients many of the ... iPhone's and beverage establishments ... some are down fifty percent summer down sixty percent that summer down only twenty percent ... depending ... on the it be the problem Mike is the roads are blocked off so getting around central ... business district in Hong Kong ... is very difficult at the moment ... and Dom ... many people of ... if they can make it ... to leave early because they've got to go home ... and doubt began roles and in many areas of the protests that has spread to many areas of Hong Kong ... golden week as celebrating when Apple they usually that's at at time when a lot of mainland Chinese come to honk on that's that that's been a disaster of basically because of the tourism he'll gold weakens ... the week when all the retailers in Hong Kong ... really ... benefit by ... all the time and that spending that the mainlanders side do here ... specially during Golden week and so ... I deal with rents ... being what they are very very expensive ... um me a nice shops I mean I walked around in the in the business district in central ... and many of the shops have not seen the customer many of them ... France and the legal ... status friends announcing the customer all they would hope that so ... we can move beyond this ... and get back ... very quickly thank you so much Dr on the bank's returning at ... all